Birthday
Party Ideas for Kids

How to Make Crafts and Activities Relating to Birthday Parties Including:
Veggie Tales Party
Ideas, Blue Clues Party Ideas, Ocean/Water Theme
Pary Ideas, and Dinosaur Party Ideas

Veggie
Tales Party

Games

1. Pin the Nose on Bob the Tomato - Play like "Pin the
Tale on the Donkey" except make a picture of Bob and have
the children tape a red nose on him.

2. Make a Veggie Tale Balloon Blind Folded -
Use the pattern and directions on the Veggie
Tale Page to make these. Print out the eyes,
nose, and mouth onto label paper or print them out onto
plain paper and roll up tape on the back. Cut Bob's
hair out of green construction paper or crepe paper. Blind
fold the children and have someone hand them the eyes noses
and mouths and let them place them on a balloon or red ball.
The child's that looks the best wins.

3. Have a Potato Sack Race

4. Toss the Balloon Cucumber - Buy large long green
balloons and fill with water. Draw on the eyes and mouth
and play a balloon toss game.

5. Toss the Vegetable in the Basket - Make red or
green bean bags and play toss the bean bag. Or buy
small red balls and draw or paint Bob the Tomato's face on
them and play the same game. Let the children keep the
balls.

6. Guess the Weight of a Tomato Door Prize Game - As
the children arrive have them pick up a large tomato and guess
what it weights. Write all the answers down. At the
end of the party weigh the tomato. The child that guesses
the closest wins.

7. Relay Race to Put Puzzle Together - You can buy
Veggie Tale puzzles at bible book stores

8. Play Hot Tomato - Play the same as Hot Potato except
use a tomato. Play Veggie Tale songs. When the
music stops the person holding the tomato is out. The
person left standing wins.

Invitations

1.
For invitations you can use the color sheet pictures of Bob,
Larry, or Jr. as the cover. You can say something like... "Don't
just Veg at home ..." or "PEAs come to my party".
For a craft, have them make puppets with cutouts characters
(use the color sheets again).
Play "pin the nose on Larry" or "Hot tomato"
(use a stuffed Bob or a tomato pin cushion).

Blue's
Clues

Games

1. Pin the Tongue on Blue - Make a large picture of Blue
on blue poster board. Have the children play "Pin the tongue
on Blue.

2. Play Doggy Doggy Where's Your Bone - Have one child
sit in the middle of a circle of children and be the dog.
Place a dog bone in front of the child. (You can use
real rawhide one). Have the dog close his eyes. One of the
children will grab the bone and hide it behind his back. When
the bone is hidden, all the children say, "Doggy, Doggy where's
your bone? Somebody stole it from your home. The doggy
then guesses who stole the bone. If he guesses right,
the child that stole the bone is the dog. If he guesses wrong,
he is the dog again.

3. Play Doggy Biscuit Games - Hide doggy biscuits
in a sand box or around the party area and have the children
look for them. Give a prize to the child that finds
the most. Drop a doggy biscuit into a bottle. Give a
prize to the child who gets the most in. Throw doggy
biscuits into a dog dish. Give a prize to the child
who gets the most in.

4. Play a Game with Paw Prints - Use the Paw
Print Pattern (PDF Pattern) and print out paw prints onto blue paper. Tape paw prints
around the party area in conspicuous places. When it comes
time for the game have all the children leave the party area
(go into a different room) Ask the children's parents
to help their child list all the places they remember seeing
a paw print. Give a price to the child who can list
the most. Or you could have a paw print hunt.
Hide the paw prints around the room (place them so they aren't
easily seen). Give a prize to the child who finds the most.

More
Great Ideas!

1. Face Painting - Make Blue's ears out of blue material or
paper and glue them onto to headbands for the children to
wear. Paint their faces with face paint. Paint on blue noses
and paw prints.
2. Play "Pin the Flag on the Mail Box".
3. Play a game where Blue has left clues that lead to the
birthday cake. Put paw prints on the stove (bake a cake),
music box (sing a song), and a candle (candle for a cake).
4. Serve blue Kool-aide and blue bubble gum ice cream.
Kathy sent in this tip - Instead of having bubble gum
flavored ice cream with a chocolate cake, just get vanilla
and color it with blue icing color.
5. Play "Blue says" instead of "Simon says".
6. Play musical chairs to blues music.

E-mail
comments

Thank
you for the Blue's Clue's Birthday party ideas. We actually
used this in our preschool Sunday School class. We had
so much fun. We put story stickers on the back of the
paw prints before we hid them in the class. The
children couldn't wait to see what Bible story Blue would
like to hear. For our craft, we took four index
cards and cut two pieces of yellow construction paper
the same size to cover the front and back of the cards. We
then punched holes in the top and laced pipe cleaners through
the top to make it look like a spiral bound notepad. I
then made small red "thinking chairs" for
them to glue on the front. As we found each clue, the
children were given a sticker that was the same as on the
bottom of each of the paw prints to place in their "notebooks."
It was a wonderful day. The children were so excited
that I told them we would have another! Blue's Clue's day
in the future. Thanks again!

I had a Blues Clues party where we played Blues Clues to
find out what Blue wanted everyone to take home from the party.
Each child was given a Handy Dandy Notebook and during the
course of the party they came upon 3 clues; a T-shirt, some
handprints and fabric paints. I had prepared T-shirts ahead
of time with each childs name, the date and a small picture
in the upper left on the front of the t-shirt (some hearts
or a sailboat). Then after they found the clues we put fabric
paint on some aluminum foil and had the kids put hand prints
on their t-shirts. It was a fun time for all and each took
home a keepsake. IT was a nice alternative to goody bags.
It required a little prep time on my part, but was not overwhelming.
And the kids had a great time. Jessica Pragada, San Jose,
CA

Ocean/Water
Theme Birthday

Games

1. Set up a small wading pool filled with water. Have the
children squirt ping pong ball across the water with squirt
guns.

2. Toss game - Set up a toy net in a corner of the room.
Have the children toss bean bag fish into the net.

3. Treasure hunt in the sand - Hide small toys in a small
wading filled with sand. Give each child a bucket and shovel
and see who can find the most toys.

Crafts

Dinosaur
Birthday

Games

1. Dinosaur Feet Race - Before the
party make dinosaur feet from boxes (see the Dinosaur
Page)
and then have the children race with the feet on.

2. Dinosaur Egg Hunt - Make dinosaur eggs from balloons
with treats inside, hide them, and have a race to see who
can find the most eggs. The
Enchanted Learning web site has directions to make paper maché eggs using balloons.
They are kind of time consuming. You could use these as treat
bags handing them out as the children leave or if you don't
want to spend a lot of time making eggs, use can use the plastic
Easter eggs and just paint them dinosaur colors with spray
paint. This craft could also be used to make a dinosaur egg
pinata. You could also hide toy dinosaurs inside a play dough
like mixture. Hide the eggs in a sand box and have the children
excavate the dinosaur eggs and crack them open. For a recipe
to make these dinosaur eggs go to the Kid's Craft Recipe Factory.
You will find the recipe under Doughs
and Clays.
Use the recipe for indoor sandcastle stuff.

Decorations

Birthday
Gifts and Goody Bag Ideas

My granddaughter is turning 2 this coming week.
She loves to do crafts with her mother. I decided to fill 31
brown paper lunch sacks with a craft idea (including all the
things she would need), one for each day of the month. I stapled
the directions on each bag. Now, she gets to pick a different
bag each day to spend some quality time with Mommy.